Sarah Stewart

Partner in the Aviation department.

Sarah is an English solicitor who has specialised in death and injury aviation claims since 2006. She was previously named by The Times as Lawyer of the Week in recognition of her work representing the families of the Shoreham Airshow Disaster. Sarah is instructed in complex claimant aviation litigation in the UK and abroad, and described by the leading legal directories as a “brilliant lawyer”, “vastly experienced” and “a delight to work with”.

Sarah is an APIL accredited fatal accident specialist lawyer and acts for bereaved families and survivors of aviation accidents in civil claimsThe claims she handles often involve jurisdictional arguments, issues of foreign law and the application of international conventions. She has acted in major air disasters and fatal helicopter and light aircraft accidents in the UK, Europe and worldwide. She supports families through official accident investigations and coroner’s inquests.

Highlights of Sarah's career include:

• Acting for passengers onboard Singapore Airlines who were seriously injured in severe turbulence in May 2024.
• Acting for bereaved families and passengers onboard Precision Air, which crashed into Lake Victoria in 2022.
• Acting for the family of Leicester City Football Club Chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in their fatal accident product liability claim arising out of a private helicopter crash at the LCFC ground in 2018 and the coroner’s inquest.
• Acting for the families of the Shoreham Airshow disaster in both their civil claims and the inquest.
• Acting for the claimant in the landmark case of Rogers v Hoyle in which the Court of Appeal held that air accident investigation reports produced by the Department of Transport are admissible in civil proceedings.

Sarah joined Stewarts in 2002, becoming a partner in 2007. She qualified with Gregory Abrams in Liverpool in 1997 before moving to London where she spent five years in personal injury at Bolt Burdon in Islington.